Ernie and Monoka Brown    Missionaries to Ecuador, S. A.
 

July 2008

Dear Pastor and Church,

           I would like to start by thanking each one of you that has been praying for us. So much has been going on in our lives. But our God has been so good! May I share with you just a couple of things God did for us.

           As most of you know, I, Ernie, came back from the field with Atrial Fibrillation and they tried several medicines to put it into rhythm. May 20th I went to Cleveland Clinic and they performed an "Ablation surgery" on me which took six hours. They told me that there was about an 80 % chance of success with this procedure. But we will need to give it some time to see if it will work. Thank the Lord that up to this point I have done great. July 18 they will take me off some of the medicine to see if my heart will stay in rhythm. If this works, then all looks great.  Thanks for your prayers. Also I believe your prayers touched our lives in a different way. Our daughter fell, head first, down 14 steps and all the doctors are amazed that she is only in a back brace at this time. There is a chance she might need surgery but we are praying that the burst fracture to the spine will heal itself with time and the brace.

           The works in Ecuador are going great. We will have another week of Bible Institute the second week of Oct. Pray for the students as they give up a week of work, leave their families so they can study, and prepare themselves to serve the Lord.

           We recently received word that the believers at one of the preaching points will organize into a church and ordain a young man to be their pastor.  They want to wait until we are there and we are thrilled to learn of this. We have received reports of people being saved and the churches are being faithful. We do ask your prayers for your brothers in Christ as they struggle with prices rising monthly. We know that so many of them cannot live a normal life because of a lack of funds.

            Pastor Adan heard noise in his son's house, which lives next to the church, and when he entered the house he was greeted by thieves with knives. They robbed the house and took the computer that Bro. Adan uses to store all his files. The number of robberies has increased with the inflation being so high.

            We ask for your prayers as we do some furlough work and then return to the field. You will never know how much you mean to us and the people of Ecuador. With out your help we could not stay in Ecuador.

Yours for Souls,

Ernie and Monoka Brown